Pony Express Gazette FT. LARAMIE WYOMING FT. KEARNY JULESBURG NEBRASKA FT. CHURCHILLRUBY STATION SALT LAKE CITY COLORADO UTAH ST. JOSEPH FRIDAY’S STATION MISSOURI NEVADA SACRAMENTO MARYSVILLE CALIFORNIA KANSAS Volume 30 THE OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE NATIONAL PONY EXPRESS ASSOCIATION April 2019 THUNDER AND DUST! Wow. Brings dark and vengeful past. Haslam and Tate’s draft of the screenplay with McLaughlin, THUNDERto mind powerful images of action and ANDjourney intertwines with that of We TuhDUST! as well as award winning cinematogra- drama. And so it will be, a full-length (Way-Tuh-a), a Paiute warrior thrust into pher John Turk and life-long friend and western movie set in central Nevada and a larger world, as he desperately seeks out co-producer Craig Smith of OSV Studios California in the days of the Pony Ex- his missing family members. Though they in Ohio. Plans for the cast include seeking press, focusing on the events during the are three individuals separated by vast dif- out veteran western actors and at least initial days of the Pyramid Lake War. The ferences, Haslam, Tate and We Tuh share one well-known name as the lead. background theme of the movie will tell a deep commonality in that they all seek NPEA leaders and members were in- how the Pony, through American deter- redemption and purpose as they bravely troduced to Brian at the National Con- mination, service above self, and inge- face the near insurmountable challenges vention last September, in Torrington, nuity, overcame all obstacles to provide on their journeys. WY. He talked enthusiastically about the critical communication and bind together Executive Producer Brian McLaughlin film, and showed some preliminary video a nation on the brink of civil war. These is committed to an accurate portrayal of footage. He is very committed to historic are the qualities that make America what life in the west in the mid-eighteen hun- accuracy, and has been in frequent com- she is today, a fact of which we need to be dreds, and an honest representation of munication with NPEA members, eagerly reminded. the characters in the story. He describes a soliciting our input and feedback. As the Inside that broader vista will be told the “character-driven drama with high action project nears completion, he intends to story of the friendship between iconic Ex- and sweeping scope.” To a life-long love have the film reviewed by Pony Express press rider “Pony Bob” Haslam and young of western history and western mov- folks, as well as his investors and officials Billy Tate, and how that friendship helped ies, he has added years of research into of the Paiute Indian Tribe. As he visits Billy through a journey of healing and for- the Pony Express and its times. He has your state to film snippets for inclusion giveness, finally escaping the shadows of a characterized the Pony Express as a “true in the movie intro, you’ll want to get to flashpoint in American history.” For the know him and help in any way possible. film, he has assembled a crew including We can’t wait to see the true Pony Express award winning Director Charles Moore on the Big Screen. (Madtown), who is co-writing the final Submitted by Pat Hearty, Utah I, __________________do hereby swear, before the great and living God, that during my engagement as a member of the National Pony Express Association Re-Ride, I will under no circumstances use profane language, that I will drink no intoxicating liquors, that I will PERMIT NO. 40 NO. PERMIT TOOELE, UT TOOELE, not quarrel or fight with any other member of the Association, and that in every respect, PAID U.S. POSTAGE U.S. I will conduct myself honestly, be faithful to my duties and so direct all my acts as to win BULK RATE BULK the confidence of my associates. So help me God. 2 Pony Express Gazette April 2019 National Officers Directory 2019 Re-Ride Schedule President: Insurance Coordinator: Dean Atkin Fred Leslie Monday, June 10 Tooele, UT Salt Lake City, UT 435-241-2246 801-553-1873 St. Joseph, MO 3:00 PM CDT First Vice President, National History Missouri/Kansas Line (Elwood, KS) 3:30 PM CDT Ride Letter Secretary: Committee Chairman, Tuesday, June 11 Melva Sanner Trails Committee Chairman: Blue Rapids, KS Pat Hearty Kansas/Nebraska Line (Tri County Marker) 12:30 PM CDT 785-556-1970 Grantsville, UT 435-884-5546 Time Zone Change CDT > MDT Second Vice President: Carl Schultz Newsletter Editor: Thursday, June 13 Green River, WY Media Team Nebraska/Colorado Line 307-875-2974 Petra Keller & (South of Big Springs, NE) 3:30 CDT/2:30 AM MDT Third Vice President: Arleta Martin Tony Goulart Pony Express Gazette: Colorado/Nebraska Line (Chappell, NE) 6:00 AM MDT Lingle, WY Arleta Martin Nebraska/Wyoming Line (Lyman, NE) 6:00 PM MDT 307-575-7104 Marysville, KS 785-562-3615 Corresponding Secretary: Sunday, June 16 Larry Carpenter Supply/Qtr Master: Wyoming/Utah Line 2:00 AM MDT Sacramento, CA Scott and Yvonne Wolf 916-332-8382 Gothenburg, NE Salt Lake City, Utah 10:30 AM MDT 308-537-3588 Recording Secretary, Time Zone Change MDT > PDT Secretary to President: NPEA Stablemaster: Pam Dixon-Simmons Petra Keller Monday, June 17 Rio Linda, CA Washoe Valley, NV Utah/Nevada Line 916-835-6067 775-453-1202 (Ibapah, UT) 6:30 AM MDT/5:30 AM PDT Treasurer, NPEA HAM Coordinator: NPS Project Manager: Gerald Hasty Wednesday, June 19 Jack Davis Layton, Utah Nevada/California Line Pollock Pines, CA 801-837-8300 530-647-8655 (South Lake Tahoe, NV) 5:30 PM PDT January, 2019 Education Coordinator: Thursday, June 20 Lyle Ladner Frankfort, KS Arrive Old Sacramento 4:30 PM PDT 785-799-5538 The Pony Express Gazette is the official publication of the National Pony State Division Presidents Express Association, a not-for-profit corporation dedicated to education and Missouri: Gary Chilcote Wyoming: Les Bennington the preservation of the Original Pony Express Trail. St. Joseph, MO Glenrock, WY 816-233-6482 307-436-9569 Dean Atkin, President Kansas: Lyle Ladner Utah: Mike Robinson Tooele, UT Frankfort, KS Eagle Mountain, UT 435-241-2246 785-799-5538 801-768-4828 Nebraska: Lyle Gronewold Nevada: Arthur Johnson Arleta Martin, Editor Gothenburg, NE Fallon, NV Petra Keller, Assistant Editor 308-529-0804 775-427-4061 [email protected] Colorado: Linda Dolezal California: Carolyn Gilmore Designed and printed by Transcript Bulletin Publishing, Tooele, Utah Julesburg, CO El Dorado, CA 970-474-2294 530-409-8676 Website: nationalponyexpress.org Email: [email protected] Facebook: www.facebook.com/expressrider/ April 2019 Pony Express Gazette 3 Czech-Australia-USA Pony Express: The Final Chapter ave you been following the travels miles, close quarters, and less-than-im- town of Stribrna Lhota (Mnisek pod of those globe-trotting Express pressive lodging at times, but what an Brdy) and branches in three directions. Riders, Jim Swigart and Pat experience, with the Pony Express linking One group rides south to Studanky on HHearty and their intrepid spouses, Ginger three continents. Unforgettable and then the Czech/Austrian border. A second and Linda? You’ll be excited to know that some. heads east, branching again at the eastern they completed the final chapter of their But speaking of the Pony Express ac- Czech city of Suchdol nad Odrou, where 2-year 3-continent adventure. tivity in Western Europe, an event which one arm reaches north to the Polish city You will recall that the 3-pronged started out with humble beginnings has of Lubon, the other crosses into Slovakia event, planned by Czech promoter Jin- caught fire across the Continent. You where the trail forks again at Zilina. From drich Bilek, started in the Czech Republic may recall that, in 1985, a freedom-loving there, one group rides to Bratislava, the in May of 2017, with some adventures, group of western enthusiasts in Czecho- other to Sena on the Slovak/ Hungarian including spilled blood and knighthood, slovakia decided to emulate the American border. that only Jim can adequately describe. event, Jim and Pat wore their red shirts Pony Express. They marked off a “trail” of Remember the third group leaving Round two was in California in June of and vests with logo, and talked about our about 250 km through the middle of their Stribrna Lhota? Their route takes them up 2017, at the culmination of the NPEA Re- Pony Express history and NPEA today. country, and relayed a mail pouch much through the northern part of Germany, ride in Old Sacramento. Chapter 3 took We also did an interview for Australian as we do in the western U.S. They kind of almost to Berlin, and west to Zwolle in us “down under” to Australia in April radio station SBS (Seven Billion Sto- flew under the radar of the Communist The Netherlands. Five nations and sev- of 2018. An incredibly good time, but a ries). It is Jindra’s hope, and ours, that Czechoslovak government. In 1990, about eral hundred miles, and an unbelievable horse-less Pony Express. We were not some spark might have been ignited, and six months after the fall of the Commu- tribute to NPEA and to the Pony riders of able to gain access to a single horse for someone down there will start a com- nist government, then-NPEA President 1860 and ‘61. Wonder if they had any idea any kind of symbolic Pony Express ride. memorative horseback mail similar to our Ken Martin helped to organize an inter- that the hoofbeats of their horses would Dang! re-ride and the ride which spiders all over national exchange.